Two-Way Stretch
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| Two-Way Stretch | |
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 The DVD cover |
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| Directed by | Robert Day |
| Produced by | E.M. Smedley-Aston |
| Written by | Alan Hackney John Warren Len Heath |
| Starring | Peter Sellers Wilfrid Hyde-White Lionel Jeffries David Lodge Bernard Cribbins Maurice Denham Irene Handl Liz Fraser |
| Music by | Kenneth V. Jones |
| Cinematography | Geoffrey Faithfull |
| Editing by | Bert Rule |
| Distributed by | British Lion Films |
| Release date(s) | 1960 |
| Running time | 83 min. |
| Country | U.K. |
| Language | English |
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Two-Way Stretch is a British comedy film of 1960, about a group of prisoners who plan to break out of jail, commit a robbery, and then break back into jail again, thus giving them the perfect alibi - that they were behind bars when the robbery occurred. However, their plans are disrupted by the arrival of a strict new Chief Prison Officer, played by Lionel Jeffries.
It was directed by Robert Day from a screenplay by John Warren and Len Heath. The film boasts a rich cast of characters played by, among others, Peter Sellers, Bernard Cribbins.
Maurice Denham later played disgraced Judge The Honourable Mr Justice Stephen Rawley in two episodes of the television series Porridge.
[edit] Cast
- Peter Sellers (Dodger Lane)
- Lionel Jeffries (Prison Officer 'Sour' Crout)
- Wilfrid Hyde-White (Soapy Stevens)
- Bernard Cribbins (Lennie (The Dip) Price)
- David Lodge (Jelly Knight)
- Irene Handl (Mrs Price)
- Liz Fraser (Ethel)
- Maurice Denham (Horatio Bennett, the Prison Governor)
- Beryl Reid (Miss Pringle)
- George Woodbridge (Chief Prison Officer Jenkins)
